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The Book Bracket

If You Had to Read One Book by a College Coach, Which Should It Be?

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Rachel Bachman

Updated April 1, 2012 3:53 p.m. ET

We see college basketball coaches bellowing on the sideline or pontificating at postgame news conferences. But we don't often get the chance to find out if there's a Twain or Hemingway among them. So The Wall Street Journal undertook an examination (OK, a thorough skimming) of 16 books written or co-written by coaches. We seeded the books by the number of each coach's all-time Division I coaching victories and played them off against one another.

What did we find? Coaches can't resist quoting Winston Churchill and John...